Jan 2 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0900 GMT on Wednesday.

MOSUL - U.S. forces said they had accidentally killed a woman when they fired a missile from a helicopter at a group planting a bomb on Tuesday evening in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. The missile missed its target and struck a nearby building, the U.S. military said.

NEAR KUT - Gunmen attacked a house and killed two brothers -- a soldier and a policeman -- overnight in a town near the city of Kut, 110 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - The body of an Iraqi soldier was found on Tuesday in Mosul a day after he was kidnapped, police said.

MOSUL - The bodies of two men were found shot near Mosul on Tuesday, police said.

MOSUL - Police arrested Adnan Khalil al-Farej, a suspected al Qaeda leader, in Mosul on Tuesday, provincial police chief Brigadier-General Saleh Mohammed Hassan told Reuters.

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